Comedy with an Accent
Comedy with an accent - comedy with a different point of view!
Join Taiwanese comedian Kuan-wen as he finds out the amusing tales, obstacles and strategies of other non-native speakers who perform English stand up comedy on the UK circuit. We also peek into the comedians' foreign upbringings and cultures, how they approach the English language, how they switch between languages and any random anecdotes that get caught in the chitchats.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
S01E08 Isa Bonachera, Spanish speaker - From Almeria, Spain🇪🇸
Isa celebrates being "weird" in their comedy approach. They got into the comedy world by accident when they tried to impress a girl - well, Isa did not get the girl, but they did get comedy! The wick…
S01E07 Radu Isac, Romanian speaker - From Vaslui, Romania (Part 2)🇷🇴
In the second part of interview with Radu, the chat wandered off at times to include the funny geopolitical situation of Romania and how that gets reflected in Radu's comedy. Kuan-wen also delved dee…
S01E06 Radu Isac, Romanian speaker - From Vaslui, Romania (Part 1)🇷🇴
Radu is the type of performer that is regarded by many fellow comics as a comedian's comedian.
He not only wins over audiences at comedy clubs, his contrarian approach often involves him throwing out …
S01E05 Yuriko Kotani, Japanese speaker - From Japan (Part 2)
The hilarious interview with Yuriko continues in this episode.
In the last episode, your host Kuan-wen and Yuriko started the discussion of the partial and poor understanding of Japanese culture by we…
S01E04 Yuriko Kotani, Japanese speaker - From Japan (Part 1)
After two episodes centring on European languages, we are back to Asia this week to discuss comedy and foreign accents with the brilliant Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani, 2015 winner of the prestigio…
S01E03 Luca Cupani, Italian speaker - From Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹
The effortlessly charming and cultured Italian comic Luca Cupani, who at some point in his life was more fluent in Latin and in ancient Greek than in English, brought the podcast to a new intellectua…
S01E02 Thor Stenhaug, Norwegian speaker - From Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴
It is not uncommon to name boys after the Norse hammer-wielding god in Norway, but it is a bit weird to use Thor as the first name but also "Odin" (Thor's father in mythology) as the middle name. It …
S01E01 Chin/Qin Wang, Mandarin speaker - From Xi-An, China 🇨🇳
Hailing from Xi-An（西安） , Northwestern China, Chin Wang won the legendary London Comedy Store gong show in March 2021 and has since been on a meteoric rise. Chin and Kuan-wen talked about their occasi…